Lot 279
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Georges Pavec

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Georges Pavec
  • The Terrace at the Royal Pavillion in Ostende
  • watercolor and pencil heightened with white on stretched paper
  • 16 1/2 by 43 1/2 in.
  • 41.9 by 110.4 cm
signed dated and inscribed G. Pavec/1907/Ostende lower right

Provenance

Sotheby's London, June 25, 1981, lot 53, illustrated

Literature

Art & Antiques, vol. 44, no. 6, March 13-19, 1981, p. 21, illustrated

Condition

Paper has been stretched around a wooden stretcher and possibly laid down along edges, tacking holes along edges.
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Catalogue Note

The present work depicts the Royal Pavillion, a promenade in Ostend, Belgium. Commissioned by King Leopold II in 1906, the Belle Époque structure was built by French architect Charles Girault and featured a graceful gallery of columns which ran from the Royal Villa to the Wellington tracks. The space was immediately popular with Ostend's vising and affluent holiday-goers who enjoyed its shops and viewing platforms along the beach. Now known as the "Albert I Promenade" the area remains a popular attraction today.